SUP police officers take 'The end of the Jefatura Superior de Catalonia' to court

Unified Police Union (SUP), the majority union in the National Police and the "spearhead" in defending police officers in Catalonia, will file objections against the text published this Tuesday in the BOE. The union has announced that they will do so "as soon as the period opens." They will initiate "as many legal actions as are within their reach to stop the separatist blackmail."

The BOE publication they refer to expresses the decision that the current police headquarters in Barcelona (Vía Laietana) be declared a Site of Historical Memory. "The separatists won't rest until they see the State Security Forces and Corps out of Catalonia," SUP denounces.

Unified Police Union has been warning for years about this act, which they consider "an act of malfeasance." "All to satisfy the separatists' hunger for revenge. We won't abandon the defense of the National Police and our colleagues stationed in Catalonia, above any blackmail or political agreement," they state in a press release.

SUP reiterates its commitment to the nation and recalls that the National Police "is the police of all Spaniards, wherever they live and whoever governs." For this reason, they emphasize that "wherever the Minister of the Interior and the Government itself don't reach in defense of our constitutional rights, SUP will be there."

SUP defends the presence of the National Police in Catalonia

"We will defend the presence of the National Police in Catalonia. As we already announced on the streets during our demonstrations in Barcelona, we will defend the continuity of our Superior Headquarters in Vía Laietana. Whatever it takes and by all means at our disposal," they express in a statement from SUP.

"We already warned that we would pursue any malfeasance in this regard through the courts. Because we believe that public safety for the whole society can't be negotiated," they add.

They conclude: "As soon as the period for objections against this farce opens, SUP will present the arguments for which we oppose this nonsense."

For SUP, "eliminating this Superior Headquarters of the National Police is dismantling the building of everyone's safety to turn it into a museum of Francoist repression. Precisely in the building that today preserves our constitutional rights. They want the national police officers out, because they want to live outside our Constitution and this Government is giving them momentum by yielding to an unforgivable blackmail."

In their statement, accessed by elcierredigital.com, they add that "wherever the work of national police officers is at stake, SUP will be there standing up and fighting. Regardless of whether it's the president of the Government or a group of radicals who blackmail him for a handful of votes. We will stand up to them and we will pursue them through the courts."